I will tell you first and foremost this
contest will not be as easy as you might think.
You better read every portion of this page
with a fine-tooth comb and not miss a thing.
One false move, one rule not followed,
one bit of rudeness, or anything of the nature
will get you thrown out instantly WITHOUT warning.
We are looking for crickets!
If you know us then you probably know
what we are referring to. For those of you that
haven't a clue what we are meaning I will tell you
now. When we say 'cricket' we are referring to writes
penned in such an amazing way that we are literally
left speechless. Only 4 poets have managed that on
this site thus far. Will you be the next one?
You may enter ONLY once!
You may enter any genre!
You may enter any form you wish!
Know now your contest hosts are AP teachers.
Also, many of the other teachers will be joining
us in the judging of this contest. We are all qualified
in various areas and forms and will be reading over
your entry with a fine-tooth comb.
Failure to comply with any of the following
will result in your being removed from this
contest WITHOUT warning!
RULES:
If it's adult or erotic label it correctly!
If adult or erotic you MUST be 18yrs of age!
If it's dark it better make us cringe!
If it's sensual it better stimulate our minds!
Proper punctuation is a MUST!
No self-created forms!
MUST be left aligned only,
unless form entered requires center alignment!
No swearing!
It has no place in poetry!
Backgrounds and fonts MUST be readable
WITHOUT having to highlight!
MUST contain poetic devices!
Avoid cliché like the plague!
ANY cliché will get you removed.
If you enter a form you MUST
state what form you have penned in
your author's comment!
No bashing of writers or their work!
No disrespecting the hosts, the judges or any writers!
If you are removed you are welcome
to re-enter once more!
No arguing with the hosts or judges!
ALL decisions are FINAL!
If you cannot handle honest critiques
please DO NOT enter as we will be honest,
and in some cases brutally honest!
No chat speak or sticky caps!
If you are going to use street slang do it right!
If you are going to rhyme be impressive!
If you are entering a piece over 40 lines
you better hold our attention!
Prewrites ONLY!
If you enter something fresh it will be removed!
B Chandler and I do not want something
we have commented on previously!
Go deep!
Be brilliant!
Impress us!
NOTE*
If you receive a comment from either myself or
B Chandler that reads simply 'cricket' then congrats
and consider yourself on the finalist list.
Again, failure to comply with any of
the above will result in your being
removed WITHOUT warning!
We reserve the right to add additional rules
as we see fit and or as needed without warning
so be certain to check back for any possibly changes!
We will be accepting 1000 entries. By the
time of judging there is a good chance that
there will only be half of you left, IF that!
Will you be one of them?
Care to find out?
Then go ahead and enter now!
Good Luck!
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on July 15, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 1000, Silver: 300, Bronze: 200, Honorable mention: 2 people
- Final notes: Well it has been a long winding road but we have finally arrived at the finish line
In behalf of B Chandler and myself, we would like to thank you all for braving the steps to entering this contest. We would, also, like to thank you all for the AMAZING entries. I kid you not when I say this was not easy to judge by any means. We have spent the last week going back and forth on several of the entries to arrive where we now.
Congrats to each of you!
I speak no lies when I say you ALL are deserving of gold! The images, metaphors, poetic devices, messages and so much else that had been woven into these piece is phenomenal!
Just hours ago, we came to a decision as we were still debating on a few entries. We have decided to host a special contest for the the fifteen poets that have left our jaws on the floor
With that said the following poets will be receiving an IM from myself once I have that contest set and opened.
Those poets are in no particular order:
Sonja
Idle Mind Wondering
blackday
Night Hope
Cinarry
FrozenTearz
kaibab
Dalaney34
-Ink Artist-
Cupcrazy
poetryality
TeenPoetDude
RedAquarius
Grendyl
Wolfheart
We ask that you have your cricketing quills at the ready
To one and all, we thank you once again and congradulate you on penning such incredible poetry! It has been our pleasure to have read and indugled with such fine works.
Also, anyone wanting a second shot can go to the link belong
http://allpoetry.com/contest/2359162
Until next time....
pen on!
Contest Winners
- Error: Unable to find finalist item 2923086, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
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And there, old and young, magic
and non-magic gather to hearby Idle Mind Wondering 52 lines, 86 comments, on Apr 5 8:38 PM 2007
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I wanted to be like you,
so perfect, so untouchable,• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove] - Error: Unable to find finalist item 2235892, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
- Error: Unable to find finalist item 2530052, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
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Morning garden sparkles promise.
Jays sing praise to lilac fragrance
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apathy tastes of moon-roses• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
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Although I have no time to write just now; / (The time that I've spent seated on my chair / has made my butt grow roots to it somehow, / to hold me here and squelch my doctrinaire / reply) yours more succinct tha• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
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She was late / A flawless little ivory face with jet hair so glossy / it wove its own thin white ribbons / out of the sunlight / A graceful• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
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All our heroes
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Silver trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
Honorable mention
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Damn it.
DAMN IT! MY CONTEST & I CAN'T ENTER MY CRICKET POEMS.
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Seriously Bel! I can't even tell which poems you've read.
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they would have our comments on them
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I choose a prewrite but at least its a new prewrite.
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And my punctuation may be a bit lacking but its there, really. lol
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I have a 700 or so line poem that I guess can hold peoples' attention.
Can I enter it mom?
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Yay, thanks.
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My poetry isn't any good lately... blah.. real life.. stuff.. blah.. but yeah I hope you get lots and lots of great entries! Not too much... then the crickets could take over the human race.
PEACE.
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hides in the distant bushes and watches
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LMAO..
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first off, I find it funny that I can't enter an adult/erotic prewrite today or tomorrow, but I can do it Friday.
lol
secondly... what if I'm just not feeling crickety right now? Because really, I'm not.
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I know you have a cricket write in your pool of poetry
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that you haven't read/commented on? maybe not.
And right now I really prefer cricket-less silence. lol
(I have a headache from 10 cousins running around the house for 5 hours... and I probably won't get rid of the headache until like, Sunday night?)
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I know you better. I know you have one. Have Chase pick one for you
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so Chase is the slave, is he?
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Yup yup
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*sighs* And what if I don't even feel like making Chase my slave tonight?
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but I can
love you hunny
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...and what if I want you to leave him in peace for a night?
love you too
(most days lol)
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I'm too tired right now to do anything about it?
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lol sounds like you need some sleep
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I need to be up in 8 hours: still have to apply for a job tonight, figure out what I'm wearing to grad tomorrow, and figure out what I'm doing with my hair. So I'll be lucky if I get 6 hours tonight?
And then tomorrow night (won't be back until 10, maybe?) I have to apply at a few more places, fill out some forms for something, pack for the weekend, write the Jeff Dahmer poem, and get everything sorted out for prom. So I'm thinking... 6 hours again if I'm lucky?
Then I'm not sleeping until 4am Saturday morning at the VERY VERY earliest - but probably not until at least 7am.
So basically... I'm not sleeping much in the next bit. And that's not going to be good.
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when it's all over you can crash for 2 days
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maybe - or maybe not. It depends on what things are going on. *sighs* Oh, and if I make it through this alive.
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sorry
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Sweet contest. Finallly something with an actual standard requiring good poetry, not pity-points!!! Whether I meet this standard or not is irrelevant. Good contest idea.
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wow, intense. i'll have to go thru my poems and see which of them might be crickets.
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Well, here goes nothing. Or...I think think nothing. Wow, I just forgot my name.
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I quess I'll give this a try. What's the worst that can happen?
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Mine is not here
I posted one but it is not displayed.
Am I not eligible?
Perhaps I did something wrong?
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AHA!
"Prewrites ONLY!
If you enter something fresh it will be removed!"
Definitely a prewrite, archived a year ago in Sharepoetry.
HELP, please!!
Terry -
At LAST!
I can't believe it worked!
Hail ye, Mighty Kevin!
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YAY!
Congrats!
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AWE DANGET! The moment I was going to put my poem in the thing, it closed it! It closed! IT CLOSED!
I ish sad
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But look at it this way: It might have won.
Far better than to be a known reject. . .
Where there is only one winner, we get a lot of losers. Kind of a wry joke I guess, but one reason to enter few competitions.
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I have reopened it for a day
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I am going to cry..I really wanted to enter....
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I have reopened it for a day
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oh my.
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I know you have a cricket somewhere in your collection
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there was no need to take my poem out of the contest, you can just simply pass it over, but it doesnt matter because this site is just a big popularity contest in which friends reward friends. If you going to remove my poem then give a reason of why it didn't impress you otherwise you shouldn't be judging contest especially if you can't analyze poetry. Give me a good critique and I'll be satisfied. Good Luck to everyone else.
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Excuse me, but before you sit and lecture one on hosting a contest perhaps you should refer back to the contest page for rules and requirements. Pay close attention to what is stated on the page.
Look for such things as:
a) Did anywhere on the page state that you would be guarenteed a comment IF removed?
Did the page state entries that did not fit what host(s) where looking for would be removed? And if so did it state you would be given a warning or a reason?
As per your assumption to my/our skills to analyze poetry, no one here said we were experts; however, like with ANY contest the host is judging not on form alone but THEIR personal preferences, likes, dislikes and such. All of which are personal to the host(s) and not to what everyone else thinks. We are all different, therefore perceptions, likes, dislikes ect ect will always vary. That is something we all must accept when entering a contest.
Returning to the contest page to take cheap shots at the host(s) or the contest itself simply because you were removed for not meeting what the host(s) were looking for makes you no better. You only make yourself look like a angry poet that cannot except the fact that his entry just did not stack up and felt the need to come forth and ridicule those hosting the contest.
Oh, and just for the record and in case you didn't bother to look; I maybe the host of this contest but B Chandler is my co-host. Along with a co-host I have incorporated the assistance of various teacher on this site (which both B Chandler and myself also are) to assist us in analyzing the poems that make it through to the finals as we are not, nor do we claim to be experts in every aspect of poetry.
I can only assume from me having to put this all here in a comment directly to you that you did not take the time to read the entire page before entering this contest, a common mistake among many on this site. Far too often poets browse the contests, see prewrites accepted but fail to read the rules and requirements along with rights reserved, warnings and any other notes that may be posted there; thus is leads to poets being angered from having writes removed only to return and tear into the host for something that is not their fault but that of the poet in the first place.
Nonetheless, I thank you for the time you have taken to enter your piece here and I do sincerely apologize that it did not make the cut for the finalist list. I also would like to thank you for taking the time to return to leave a piece of your poetic perceptions upon my page. Opinions vary and every one has one...that is your right, but then I too am inclined to have my own and that is MY right.
I big you farewell dear poet.
Many blessings to you in all you do.
Celticmoon
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Thanks so much Bel...and congrats to all the other winners...what a crew...
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I thank you ladies for the HM & for hosting such an amazing contest. Congratulations, one & all...VERY well done, Poets & Scribes. I'm honored to be among you all. Wanda
"Bitter Roots"
http://www.allpoetry.com/poem/2130348
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Thanks so much for the lovely silver, congrats to the winners and thanks for hosting a wonderful contest, hugs, Bunny
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thank you very much for the gold! I'm astonished by all these incredible writes! Congrats to everyone and thank you for being wonderful hosts.
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WAW! Congratulations to all winners, it was really exciting to wait for your voting results. I am honored with your decision and this shiny trophy. I am looking forward for your next contest.
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yayyyyyyy, i qualify for another round, eh?
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Yup yuo do and I will be posting it in the next day or so once I have all the kinks worked out
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